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1 online resource (257 pages). |
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Continuum Advances in Religious Studies |
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Continuum advances in religious studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Approaching Spiritual Tourism; Part I Finding Spiritual Tourism in the Field; Chapter 2 Rishikesh: The Spiritual Marketplace; Chapter 3 The Camino de Santiago: The Spiritual Workplace; Part II Travel and Religion; Chapter 4 A History of the Idea of Travel; Chapter 5 Theories of Leisured Travel; Chapter 6 Contemporary Forms of Religious Life; Part III Understanding Spiritual Tourism in Context; Chapter 7 India in the Mind of the Spiritual Tourist; Chapter 8 The Camino de Santiago in the Mind of the Spiritual Tourist. |
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Chapter 9 Conclusions: Reading Spiritual TourismAppendix A: List of Informants; Appendix B: Whither Spiritual Tourism?; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an im. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Religious aspects.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects.
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Religion.
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Hospitality.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Tourism -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01153194
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Norman, Alex. Spiritual Tourism : Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2011 9781441150448 |
| ISBN |
9781441123084 (electronic bk.) |
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1441123083 (electronic bk.) |
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